HMS HOOD IN DOCK 42

HMS HOOD A BRITISH CRUISER 1918

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS BULKHEAD WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( MUCH TO BE UPGRADED )

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: Hood
Namesake: Admiral Samuel Hood
Ordered: 7 April 1916
Builder: John Brown & Company
Laid down: 1 September 1916
Launched: 22 August 1918
Commissioned: 15 May 1920
In service: 1920–1941

Identification: Pennant number: 51
Motto: Ventis Secundis (Latin: "With Favourable Winds")
Nickname(s): Mighty Hood

Fate: Sunk during the Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941

Badge: A Cornish chough bearing an anchor facing left over the date 1859

General characteristics

Class and type: Admiral-class battlecruiser
Displacement: 46,680 long tons (47,430 t) deep load
Length: 860 ft 7 in (262.3 m)
Beam: 104 ft 2 in (31.8 m)
Draught: 32 ft 0 in (9.8 m)

Installed power: 144,000 shp (107,000 kW)

Propulsion:

4 shafts
Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines
24 Yarrow boilers

Speed:

1920: 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
1941: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)

Range: 1931: 5,332 nautical miles (9,870 km; 6,140 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)

Complement:

1919: 1,433
1934: 1,325

Sensors and
processing systems:

Type 279 air-warning radar
Type 284 gunnery radar

Armament:

As built:

4 × 2 – BL 15-inch Mk I guns
12 × 1 – BL 5.5-inch Mk I guns
4 × 1 – QF 4-inch Mark V anti-aircraft guns
6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

1941, as sunk:

4 × 2 – 15-inch (381 mm) guns
7 × 2 – QF 4-inch Mk XVI AA guns
3 × 8 – QF 2-pdr "pom pom" AA guns
5 × 4 – 0.5-inch Vickers machine guns
5 × 20-barrel "Unrotated Projectile" mounts
2 × 2 – 21-inch above water torpedo tubes

Armour:

Belt: 12–6 in (305–152 mm)
Deck: 0.75–3 in (19–76 mm)
Barbettes: 12–5 in (305–127 mm)
Turrets: 15–11 in (381–279 mm)
Conning tower: 11–9 in (279–229 mm)
Bulkheads: 4–5 in (102–127 mm)

Aircraft carried:

1 fitted 1931–32
1 catapult

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